Improvement in coffin-plates



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE BRABROOK, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 REED & BARTON,OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CQFFlN-PLATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,457, dated July l,18753; application tiled May 8, 1873. y

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE BRABnooK, of Taunton, in the county ofBristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and 'ImprovedGodin-Plate; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which-Figure l is a plan view of plate and ornament, Fig. 2, a longitudinal,and Fig. 3 a transverse, section ot' Fig. 1.

The invention relates particularly to inscription-plates for coins, butgenerally to all such plates as are intended for either inscription orornamentation plates for ,coins It will be first described in connectionwith all that is necessary to a full understanding thereof, and thenclearly pointed out in the claim.

In the dra-wing, A represents a coffin-plate having the circumjacenthorizontal flange a at the bottom, and the body a rising upwardly fromsaid flange, preferably on a taper toward the top. B is an ornamentalborder of any suitable conguration and design, preferably beveled on theunder side b of its edges in a reverse direction from the plate. By thisrelative construction of the plate and its border the latter will titsnugly down on and around the former, but may be also riveted or madefast thereto if desired. This border can be formed in two or moresections it' preferred. The great advantages of making these two partsseparately, and subsequently attachable together, consists in enablingthe golden or other fanciful border to be made without the necessity ofcoating, with water-proof substance, those parts that are not intendedto be gilded; also in saving the expense of refinishing the plate afterthe gilding, this being always requiredif both are made in one pieceand, finally, in allowing one ornamental border to be substituted foranother.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is y The coftinplate, A having circumjacentflange a at the bottom, and body a tapered toward the top, combined witha detachable border, B, beveled on the under side b, in thc manner andfor the purpose described.

y GEORGE BRABROOK.

Vitnesses:

THEoDoEE P. HALL, JOHN A. ABBOTT.

